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§ Dark Horse revealed three upcoming Marvel releases. Marvel’s Most Villainous: Doctor Doom will commemorate the Avengers: Doomsday villain in hardcover on December 22 (the Tuesday after the film’s release). The King Goes West: The Complete Marvel Westerns by Jack Kirby Volume 1: 1957-1961 will kick off a trilogy collecting Kirby’s westerns on February 2. And last but not least, The Art of The Uncanny X-Men will celebrate Len Wein, Chris Claremont, John Byrne, and Dave Cockrum‘s ’70s-80s run on February 23, 2027. For more information on the books’ prices and physical dimensions, head to the links provided.
§ Via IGN, IDW’s Twilight Zone comic will depart from previous issues (and the original TV show), as the next set of issues (#11-16) will feature a single color, instead of being entirely in black-and-white. Editors Nic Niño and Ellen Boener say, “Each cartoonist is taking full advantage of the color in their issue and never in the way you would expect! It’s changed the way artists approach the page; with everyone submitting career-best work.” Issue #11, by Mark Russell and Victor Alpi, will feature green, and be released on October 21.
§ Via Daily Dead, Panick Entertainment unveiled a five-issue tie-in series for Halloween: The Game. Issue #1 is written by Hans Rodionoff & Adam F. Goldberg, who also wrote the video game’s single-player campaign, and will retell the story of Michael Myers’s escape from Dr. Loomis’s sanitarium in the original 1978 film. It will feature art by Eamon Winkle & Sean O’Toole, and be released on November 4, after the game launches on September 8. Subsequent issues will feature different writers.
§ GLAAD are teaming up with Twisted Comics for a special edition of San Junipero, the publisher’s graphic novelization of the beloved Black Mirror episode. It will include a foreword by GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis, and a dedications page, which will include your name if you preorder by September 15. 20 percent of net profits from each copy will go to GLAAD. The graphic novel was crowdfunded on Kickstarter earlier this year, and was previously released in the UK in association with another LGBTQ+ charity, Stonewall.
§ Netflix dropped a new trailer for the two-part LEGO One Piece special, releasing on Tuesday, September 29. The special features the voices of the live-action series’ cast, but will also be available in multiple languages, including Japanese; you can watch the trailer for that version here.
§ Finally, Anime News Network shares that, following an update on Tuesday, August 18, the official Crunchyroll Store no longer sells physical manga or light novels, or Korean manhwa and Chinese danmei. (It also appears it no longer stocks physical media of anime not distributed by them, or any other Sony subsidiary.) Crunchyroll was approached for comment, but declined to respond. The changes accompanied the previously announced decision to make the store exclusive to Mega and Ultimate tier subscribers.
